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Boiling water on a stove? What year is this?

In the US it's cheap but unregulated

It’s the exact opposite actually.

US sunscreen is way worse than sunscreen in other parts of the world like the EU. It doesn’t block the harmful radiation as well. The reason is that it’s more strictly regulated in the US. IIRC it’s not considered a cosmetic product but instead it’s a medical product.

As such it’s subject to much stricter regulation and requires much more (expensive) testing before being allowed on the market. Due to this it’s considered too expensive to introduce the newer, more advanced sunscreen products in the US so you’re stuck with the older, crappier sunscreen.

Here in the Netherlands it’s expensive as well. Like a small bottle of name-brand sunscreen is €30.

No need to remove the skin. It’ll just melt in your mouth.

It’s not raw, it’s cured in brine.

I see flirting as banter to make sexual/romantic intentions known.

That’s basically what it is. It’s not there to make someone develop feelings, it’s a way to safely make your feeling known and see if they are reciprocated. It’s basically lowering the risk of rejection, if the feeling isn’t mutual and you don’t get a response you can just write it off as a harmless flirt. If (s)he flirts back you can dial it up a notch.

To add to this: The EU is developing this and it’s supposed to be available to all EU citizens at the end of 2026. From that time government services should also be able to accept it. (Not sure if they’re going to make it, the standards are still under active development).

It’s all based on OpenID Connect (OIDC). Everything is being developed in the open, as open source software. You can find the github project here.

If you want to take a look at the draft standards themselves, search for OpenID4VCI (standard for issuing of credentials to a wallet) and OpenID4VP (standard for presenting credentials to 3rd parties).

No. I own that copy. It's not a license to anything. I own it. It's mine. That's what the money was for.

Yeah that’s not how copyright works. You are either the owner of the IP (i.e. the company that paid for developing the game) or you need a license to be allowed to own/play a copy. There is no third option here.

Don't play corporate word games with concepts as basic as having things.

It’s not word games, it’s the law. You and I may not like it but that doesn’t really change anything.

That's as close to 'owning' a piece of copyrighted material as you are ever going to get.

Not true at all. Pretty much all of us own loads of copyrighted material, as in actually own. For example: every single photo you take is your intellectual property.

First sale doctrine gives you some rights, but it doesn’t give all the same rights you would have for any other physical object that doesn’t include copyrighted work.

If I buy 100 chairs, I’m free to start a chair rental business. If I buy 100 copies of a game, I cannot start renting them out without permission from the actual owner of the game.

The fact that the law entitles you to a slightly broader license doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still just a license and not ownership. The only thing you own is the physical media (e.g. the plastic disc) not the contents of that disc.

First sale doctrine gives you some rights, but it doesn’t give the all same rights you would have for any other physical object that doesn’t include copyrighted work.

If I buy 100 chairs, I’m free to start a chair rental business. If I buy 100 copies of a game, I cannot start renting them out without permission from the actual owner of the game.

The fact that the law entitles you to a slightly broader license doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still just a license and not ownership. The only thing you own is the physical media (e.g. the plastic disc) not the contents of that disc.